Still not clear about GI Joe's affiliation...

[C.E. Evans]

It think G.I. JOE now stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" now and it has bases all over the world.

Its initial concept was too American for a film Paramount wants to distribute internationally. Purely a business decision, IMO...

 

[captcalhoun]

the makers have explicity denied that to be the case.

it may be like the latter-stage UK toys: GI Joe, but with an international membership...

first they were 'Action Force'. then they were GI Joe and Action Force who joined forces to become GI Joe: The Action Force and then they were just GI Joe...

 

[Nerys Myk]

It think G.I. JOE now stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" now and it has bases all over the world.

Its initial concept was too American for a film Paramount wants to distribute internationally. Purely a business decision, IMO...

Does that even make sense?

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

GI Joe was an American thing, there are simmilar groups in Europe and Russia, and some Joes like Big ben are from England and ect.

the only one that I can think of are the Oktober Guards...Big Ben is affiliated with GI Joe, though he is British.

 

[captcalhoun]

in the 80s there were the Joes and there was the Oktober Guard.

Big Ben was SAS who joined the Joes. Likewise there was an Aussie, called Boomerang i think, who was from the SASR who joined the Joes.

unless you were in the UK in which case Barbecue was Italian, Airtight German, Lady J Irish, Wet Suit and Ace Canadian and Flint, Footloose, Wild Bill, (Hawk and Rock and Roll the toys), Hit and Run and a few others were Brits, Outback was Aussie, Beach Head was a Kiwi and they were International Heroes...

 

[Skywalker]

Meh, making G.I. Joe (or I guess G.I.J.O.E. in the movie) an international organization doesn't bother me. I can understand the decision behind it.

Besides, you could easily say that it was founded in the United States and was solely an American operation for a time, and then expanded into a force made up of NATO's finest soldiers later on. It's not a big deal.

 

[captcalhoun]

agreed.

these days, with the global reach of the modern terrorist network, having it be international is only logical...

it'll be interesting to see what IDW do with the comics license since they're rebooting it...

 

[MarianLH]

So, basically, they're remaking Megaforce.


Marian

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Beach Head was a Kiwi

Sorry but that's hilarious. Beach Head as a Kiwi...

 

[captcalhoun]

well, it was never really mentioned. he only appeared in one UK-originated strip and (i think) the Joe invasion of Cobra Island in the civil war, before they stopped reprinting it.

The Intelligence Profile he recieved in AF Monthly said he was NZ SAS, but it never came up in the story, he coulda been from any where.

 

[A beaker full of death]

It think G.I. JOE now stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" now and it has bases all over the world.

Its initial concept was too American for a film Paramount wants to distribute internationally. Purely a business decision, IMO...

Nice slap in the face to every American soldier who has ever served.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

well, it was never really mentioned. he only appeared in one UK-originated strip and (i think) the Joe invasion of Cobra Island in the civil war, before they stopped reprinting it.

The Intelligence Profile he recieved in AF Monthly said he was NZ SAS, but it never came up in the story, he coulda been from any where.

Still funny...But yeah. Interesting though. Rock N'Roll is a surfer

 

[darkwing_duck1]

It think G.I. JOE now stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" now and it has bases all over the world.

Its initial concept was too American for a film Paramount wants to distribute internationally. Purely a business decision, IMO...

And as cravenly PC as the decision to rewrite the bad guys in "Sum of all Fears" to make them european Neo-Nazis instead of Islamic terrorists...

 

[Aragorn]

The PC mentality can be easily shown by the example of the gang banger in my area who killed a cop and then later took his own life when the cops were coming down on him. A pastor said the gang banger was as much of a victim as the cop he killed.

On a larger scale, there's the people who wondered why the warlords and their minions weren't named at the end of Black Hawk Down because they were victims too.

 

[C.E. Evans]

It think G.I. JOE now stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" now and it has bases all over the world.

Its initial concept was too American for a film Paramount wants to distribute internationally. Purely a business decision, IMO...

Does that even make sense?

If the goal is to make as much money in other markets as possible, it makes perfect sense to make the team more international.

And some would say making as much money is possible is truly the American way...

Nice slap in the face to every American soldier who has ever served.

You could say that if it wasn't for the service of American soldiers, a film like this would probably never be made. The freedoms they and other soldiers around the world fought for included the freedom for others to create works some of us might disapprove of.

Still, I think Americans will be more than well represented in this movie...

 

[A Clockwork Lim]

"G.I. Joe" is a term that's known around the world for American soldiers. Changing it's meaning for a movie is an insult to those American soldiers, it's an insult to the intelligent of people around the world, and it's an insult to think that they'd want their soldiers identified with a wholly and undeniably American term.

No matter how you slice it, it's an awful idea. The same people who'd see G.I. Joe as an American organization are the same God damn people who'd go see it if it were anything else.

 

[ancient]

Uh...so they're changing what G.I. Joe means for the movie? Isn't it kinda dumb to change a real world term to mean something different? And confusing?

I mean, can't they just butcher it up with new dialogue for the foreign market, the way they do for Anime?

I suppose USA could be changed to mean 'Unified Soldiers of Australia' or something. As if no one will notice how amazingly bizzare that is.

 

[A beaker full of death]

I suppose USA could be changed to mean 'Unified Soldiers of Australia' or something. As if no one will notice how amazingly bizzare that is.

Exactly.
What's disturbing is that some people didn't notice.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It think G.I. JOE now stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" now and it has bases all over the world.

Its initial concept was too American for a film Paramount wants to distribute internationally. Purely a business decision, IMO...

Does that even make sense?

If the goal is to make as much money in other markets as possible, it makes perfect sense to make the team more international.

And some would say making as much money is possible is truly the American way...

I was talking about the acronym.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The thing is that "G.I. Joe" was always just a nickname for the team. It's official name was Counter-Terrorist Group Delta.

So nothing's really changed, because the team is still called "G.I. Joe" (an American term), they're still individually called Joes, still go about trying to save the world from Cobra, and still operate just as much outside the U.S. as within it.

Some might get angry that someone came up with less American-centric meaning for what the name stands for in the movie, but it's hard to squeeze in "A" or "U.S." in G.I. J.O.E. anyway...